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I liked the end of Mary Livermore's selection when she is comparing harvesting and domestic chores. She explains that harvesting is not any harder than "typical" women's work and so females should be able/allowed to do it. She also wants men to know that women are serving the country in the fields doing the harvest in the same way men are in the war serving. The examples she gives help prove her statement that "women had enlisted for the war." I feel she is also trying to make the point that men's opinions about women working in the field does not matter because under the circumstances the women are the only ones able to do the work that is necessary in keeping up the estate or home. -Amy Van Ness | I liked the end of Mary Livermore's selection when she is comparing harvesting and domestic chores. She explains that harvesting is not any harder than "typical" women's work and so females should be able/allowed to do it. She also wants men to know that women are serving the country in the fields doing the harvest in the same way men are in the war serving. The examples she gives help prove her statement that "women had enlisted for the war." I feel she is also trying to make the point that men's opinions about women working in the field does not matter because under the circumstances the women are the only ones able to do the work that is necessary in keeping up the estate or home. -Amy Van Ness | ||
| − | It’s interesting that Mary Livermore was at first a little disgusted to see women working the fields, likely a reaction that most middle-class people would have felt. However, while others might have recognized the necessity of it on behalf of the Union war effort, it sounds like Mary might have realized that it was not only important to the war, and she does suggest that it’s only the war that puts women in the fields (though they would have been working them even without the war), but also that women were actually pretty good at the work. Of course, she qualifies it by saying that they didn’t work as fast as the men, but that they were more precise and artistic about it, which is a stereotype that persisted for a long time (and maybe | + | It’s interesting that Mary Livermore was at first a little disgusted to see women working the fields, likely a reaction that most middle-class people would have felt. However, while others might have recognized the necessity of it on behalf of the Union war effort, it sounds like Mary might have realized that it was not only important to the war, and she does suggest that it’s only the war that puts women in the fields (though they would have been working them even without the war), but also that women were actually pretty good at the work. Of course, she qualifies it by saying that they didn’t work as fast as the men, but that they were more precise and artistic about it, which is a stereotype that persisted for a long time (and maybe continues today) regarding appropriate work for women. -- Taylor Brann |
== Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | == Louticia Jackson’s letter in 1863 == | ||
